KC Geek Night occurs every Monday at 6:30pm
Cowtown Computer Congress meets every Thursday at 7PM
The Adobe Design Group meets on Thusday the 7th
Venture Fridays is on Friday the 8th
Python meets on Saturday the 9th
Mobile Media Club meets on Monday the 11th
The Web SIG, Perl Mongers, and Ruby all meet on Tuesday the 12th
Java meets on Wednesday the 13th
KCWebCore meets on Thursday the 14th
PHP meets on Saturday the 16th
UpFront meets on Monday the 18th
Windows/Freeware meets on Tuesday the 19th
Access meets on Wednesday the 20th
LimitedWIP and KC IIBA both meet on Thursday the 21st
Python is holding a workshop for newbies on Friday the 22nd
Maker Faire Saturday the 23rd and Sunday the 24th at Union Station
.Net SIG meets on Tuesday the 26th
KC Web Pros meet on Wednesday the 27th (and I will be presenting SQL Injection and XSS)
Agile KC and OWASP meet on Thursday the 28th.

///StampedeCon_2012 will take place in St. Louis, MO on August 1, 2012 from 7:30 AM to 5:00 PM. It will be a well-rounded event that is designed to inform and equip organizations thinking about or already working with Big Data.
The speaker list is still growing but here’s a brief look at some of the confirmed presentations/speakers (see the Presentations and Speakers pages for further details):

How Big Data Can Help Your Business: Case Studies from ReadWriteWeb - David Strom (ReadWriteWeb)

///StampedeCon_2012 will be held on the campus of one of the foremost medical research organizations in the United States. Read more about our venue. For updates, check back here or follow us on Twitter and Facebook.

Ed Saipetch (Sr. Technical Director at Joyent, @edsai) and Paolo Fragomeni
(Co-founder and CTO of Nodejitsu, @hij1nx) will be in Kansas City and wanted to
grab a few beers—come on out and join us!
We'll be gathering to hang out and meet other members of the Node community.
There will be no formal node presentation or coding at this event.
Event sponsored by Cerner (http://cerner.com/).

Please join us for a free, best practices
seminar to learn how the new VMware vCenter™ Operations Management Suite 5.0
can help you simplify infrastructure and operations management.

IT administrators today face a new challenge: Ensure quality of service in a
dynamic virtual environment efficiently and cost effectively.

Join this seminar and learn how you can:

Improve team productivity by 50%

Enhance resource utilization by 30%

Deliver higher quality of service of your critical
applications

Traditional tools designed for monitoring static physical
environments are no longer adequate because they don’t provide enough
meaningful information and overwhelm you with alert storms or false alarms. End
users are often first to report performance problems and cause fire drills for
IT when it is already too late.

With vCenter Operations, VMware is offering a new approach that uses patented
analytics and integrated performance, capacity and configuration management
capabilities that allow you to:

Get better visibility across your entire virtual and
physical infrastructure

Act on proactive alerts to eliminate performance
bottlenecks before end users notice

Reclaim capacity from unused resources and from
right-sizing VMs

See the impact of configuration changes and
automatically enforce policies and compliance

Integrate with your existing investments for enterprise
wide deployment and even greater ROI

Don’t miss this unique opportunity to learn best
practices, see a demo and to speak with VMware experts directly. Don't just
manage your virtualized infrastructure. Master it.

At this month's meeting, Tom Westervelt and John Gonzalez
will facilitate (that's right, this is a participative exercise) a discussion
around the Scrum Master role. But this isn't just a discussion about the role.
At the end of the meeting we hope to be able to have a clearer definition of a
performance map for a Scrum Master that could be used by an HR department. If
time permits, we might even be able to talk about career progression in a Scrum
world.

Tom Westervelt works at DST and is a CSP and CSM.John Gonzalez worksat Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Kansas and is a
CSM.Both gentlemenhave been initiating and leading changes at their
respective organizations.

We'll save some time for questions and answers at the end
so bring your questions and a friend.

When?
Friday, June 22nd 6pm - 9pmSaturday, June 23rd 9:30am - 4pmWhat?
The Beginners Python Workshop is a 2-day free event focused on teaching the
basics of programming in the Python language. Everybody is encouraged to attend,
regardless of your previous experience with programming. This will be a
judgement-free event, so even if you've never written a line of code in your
life or if you've been a professional developer for years who just wants to
learn something different we'd love to teach you.
The first night will consist of setting up Python on your laptop and walking
through some online exercises. Once you can show that Python is properly
installed on your laptop and you can run a few basic commands in terminal you're
free to go. The next day we'll start with an Intro to Python presentation, lunch
and then some practical hands-on exercises.
The only requirements to attend are a laptop and a willingness to learn.Where?
We'll be at the UMKC campus at 5110 Rockhill Road, Kansas City, MO. The room
we have booked is 302 Flarsheim Hall.Friday evening you will probably need to park in the visitor lots and
pay the meters, or on the street. Saturday there's no problem parking in the
garage at 52nd & Rockhill; park on the lower level, come up the stairs out
of the garage to the north, across the street, then across the quad to Flarsheim
(ahead of you, to the right). It's the building with the sundial on the front of
it and the steel beam sculpture in front.Room 302 is just off the atrium to the left.Here is a link to the campus
map.ScheduleFriday, 6pm - 9pm: set up your development environment,
learn how to execute Python code from a file and interactively from a Python
prompt, and learn about printing and using Python as a calculator.Saturday, 9:30am - 10am: settle in, get your laptop set up,
and review Friday's material. We will start the lecture promptly at 10.Saturday, 10am - noon: we'll provide lunch. Let us know
when you RSVP if you have any dietary restrictions.Saturday, 1pm - 3:30pm: break out into groups to practice
Python through short projects
on a variety of fun and practical topics.Saturday, 3:30pm - 4pm: wrap-up, next steps, and upcoming
opportunities for learning and practicing Python.

Sponsor: MODIS, Tonya Nussbaum --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Food and door prizes will be provided by : MODIS, Tonya
Nussbaum In order to ensure that we have enough food, please send an
email to Ray Harris ( kcwebpro1@kcwebpros.com
) to indicate if you will be attending. Thanks very much !

We will be discussing a KC Incubator Project. KC Incubator
is a Sub-Group of Kansas City Web Professionals Group.Kurt Loudon & John K. have teamed together with the
KC-St. Joe Catholic Diocese to lead a team of Diocesan High School students in creating a School Locator Web Map App! This is
all part of the Diocesan IT Capstone Program Funded by John & Kurt. We will discuss how the Capstone Program got started &
How this Projecte was implemented. Then we will dive right into the actualArchitecture of the Web Map App which includes Cloud
Technology via The Diocese and Amazon Web Services. We will discuss the
mapping of ~100 Parishes in the Diocese via ESRI software. We will
also demo the Web Map App. Then if available we will have a student or two discuss their
experience in this Inaugural rendition of the Kansas City-St. Joseph Catholic Diocese IT/GIS Capstone
Program.

Kurt Loudon's Mini-BIO: Kurt W. Loudon is a 20-year technical expert in the diverse
field of information technology. Design and development of databases, GIS, & Web systems are his main areas of expertise,
using cutting-edge technologies and methodologies to deliver first-class products and services in formats such as ArcSDE, Oracle, MS
SQL Server, MS Visual Basic, ColdFusion, ASP, MS Access, Satellite Forms, ER/Studio, Erwin, ArcIMS, and more! Kurt
has a bachelor’s degree in Geography from the University of Missouri –
Columbia. He also has earned a master’s in Public Management &
Policy from the top-ranked Heinz School at Carnegie Mellon University. Kurt
has been instrumental in designing, developing, and implementing
the integration of GIS, database, web, and facilities management technologies for the following clients: City of Westminster
CO, Kansas Dept. of Health & Environment, Department of Defense, Union County Conservation District, Department of Homeland
Security, Tele Atlas, USDA, City of North Kansas City MO, Oklahoma Natural
Gas, ONEOK, Enbridge, and more!--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
See you there! --------------------------------------------------------------------------------

HUG Windows Freeware SIG
5/15/2012 New Horizons Room 6
In the past weeks I have been asked a similiar question twice, what is the best
free product(s) I can load to protect my computer. This is an area we have not
looked at in detail for awhile and it probably needs to be reviewed. Over time
offerings tend to change and not always in the positive direction. Beauty is in
the eye of the beholder and what is a minor annoyance to one drives another up
a wall.

Technical skill of a user is also a definite consideration. A very technical
user may want the very best product by each type and others want one that
provides good protection with less attention from the user. Come to the meeting
and air your views. Remember, a product used correctly beats one that is not
understood even if it has a high reputation.As usual there will be a
question and answer session for general or specific questions.
Date:5/15/2012 6:30 PM - 9 PM
Where: New Horizons Computer Learning Center
Metcalf South Shopping Center
96th& Metcalf, Overland Park, KS
(Please enter the door of Metcalf South on the lower level of the
shopping center on the West - You will find New Horizons inside the
center area.)
Room: 6 see a map at www.newhorizonskc.com

Tech entrepreneurs in and around KC, join us for happy
hour!
Venture Fridays is a simple but fun concept: The startup culture of Kansas
City and surrounding areas to discuss what we’re all thinking about, working on,
needing help with, and might do for each other. Existing or aspiring
entrepreneurs of all types and ages are invited. Let’s raise our glasses to
building the entrepreneurial culture beyond ourselves.
Who are your hosts? We’re a web marketing metacompany, still whiffing the
baby powder of our start in 2009. We work hard, and we play hard. Sometimes
Venture Fridays will be co-located with other events, sometimes not. Either way,
we’ll be here drinking and thinking. Will you? Drop in.No soliciting or mooching
please (entrepreneurial mojo required; read more in Discussions).
Want to present your idea, get feedback, or find testers? Have an idea for an
awesome entrepreneurial jam? We invite startup stimulation. Contact Carrie at Red Nova Labs.

Entrepreneurs are driven by a need to create something new or build
something tangible under conditions of extreme uncertainty. They’re
spontaneously creative, able and willing to make decisions from the gut, and
generally risk-takers. Entrepreneurship is also largely about helping
others achieve the goals they care about.Is that you? Are you a driven
outsider, possessed of a unique genius, ready to take outrageous risks and work
incomprehensible hours to beat the odds? Well then, we like you already. Welcome
to the group!

In recent years there's been rapid growth in application development area.
This is in large part due to trends such as better tools to manage code and
dependencies, external services to aid you, and due to the elasticity of the
cloud. We will walk through some of the recent trends and emerging trends for
the future in application development. These trends will make it even easier to
scale up without significant overhead, further enable continuous deployment, and
improve the ease to onboard other developers into a development team. Many of
these current and emerging best practices will be highlighted on Heroku with
live demos, but broadly apply outside the Heroku platform.

JavaScript can be both awesome and terrible. We’ll talk about the history of
generating JavaScript and then work through some quick exercises in two
languages that can produce JavaScript as output: CoffeeScript and Dart. Then,
we’ll compare the two and look where they are headed.
This is an interactive talk, so plan to bring alaptop and code along. At the
end, you'll at least have run a bit of CoffeeScript and Dart. You don’t have to
be an experienced developer, as we’ll keep it super-high level.
About your presenter:
By day, David Mitchell is a mild mannered Group Technical Director at VML,
where he is more likely to review JavaScript code than write it. By night, David
is a polygot programmer, exploring languages like JavaScript, Smalltalk, and
Lisp. David has presented nationally and at regional conferences and has taught
programming at Sprint, Centriq, and at workshops for kids through local schools
and homeschool groups.
This talk will be a part of One Week KC, an exciting week full of grassroots
events that help educate, inspire, encourage and celebrate entrepreneurship in
our quest to make Kansas City America's Most Entrepreneurial City. One Week
events include technical meetups, classrooms, conferences, networking, speakers,
parties and fun activities. More details to come.

She develops and maintains databases that allow our clients to track their clients and competitors.

Advanced Presentation: (TBD)

Lisa Friedrichsen:Access 2010 -- What Happened to the Switchboard Manager?, New Navigation Forms, and Customizing the Ribbon

In this presentation we'll look at the new Access 2010 Navigation Forms and compare them to the traditional Switchboard Manager. We'll find and dig out the Switchboard Manager feature in Access 2010 (in case you still need to maintain a traditional switchboard form in an older database). Then, we'll improve your ability to find the features you need by modifying both the Quick Access toolbar as well as the ribbon.

Lisa Friedrichsen is a Professor - Computer Science & Information Technology at Johnson County Community College Overland Park, KS

Come work on Python projects, get programming help, help others, and hang
out. Bring your own project or work on one of the suggested projects below.
We'll have members available to help beginning Python programmers with language
basics and practice.

Audience: Everyone! We'll have something for all Python
experience levels.Things to bring: a wireless-enabled laptop and power
cordNeed some project ideas? How about:Learning Python

With a nod to http://usesthis.com/ ,
Travis Cline and I discussed the idea of a session in which we have a few people
share their development setup for their operating
system-slash-language-slash-framework of choice.
* Aaron: Ruby and Rails in Lion* Travis: Python and Django* PHP?
Perl? iOS? .Net? Other Rubyists/Pythonistas? Anyone?

I'd love it if you could share your experiences about mobile stuff. We're pretty relaxed about speakers
these days, so I'd love it if someone like you would step up and keep
us entertained for a few moments. Please let me know what I can do to
help.